0_o Man! I need to study more... and go onto internet more... darn.As for my question, is there a winter olympics thread? I don't want to further any more discussion of Curling and stuff like that here, as it doesn't have anything to do with this thread. Anyway, wow! This goes to show, I'm not enough of an American football fan. And I call myself a devout Steelers fan... Thanks anyway.~torchie13125

Um, I thought Russia wasn't Communist anymore? Maybe I got a 4 on my AP World History Test (in America) with no knowledge that Russia was still Communist. Last time I checked, the Soviet Union got dismantled in the 1980s and 1990s.
Anyway, I also don't think synchronized swimming shouldn't be a sport. Why? It's pretty much underwater dancing!
Another sport that shouldn't be a sport is figure skating. The reason? Same as above, except on ice. Dancing isn't a sport.
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Erhm, i swim... when i get angry, Mr. Baglesworth gets angry! and when Mr. Bagelsworth gets angry, PEOPLE DIE! (JK)

When were you a... oh... I see where it says that you swim. Sorry, But I wasn't making fun of swimming itself. Swimming is a legit sport. I know that, because I like to swim too, But, synchronized swimming is just a dancing maneuver underwater. So, I'm not saying swimming itself isn't bad.

American football is hardly played outside the US, and I doubt that there's any international Am. football cups anywhere. Have you heard of an American football team in the UK? Have you heard of one in Germany? In Canada? (just maybe...) In Norway? In Brazil?

As for your claim that there aren't any international cups, there's the IFAF World Cup. There's also the European Football League, which operates similarly to the Champions League soccer tournament (i.e. best club teams in Europe participate in a tournament to determine the European champion).

And as for the rest of you, there seems to be a lot of people who seem to think things aren't sports out of sheer ignorance. Things like chess and gaming that primarily involve mental skill can easily be considered sports. Racing, especially at Formula One level, requires rigorous physical training to cope with all of the g-forces you're subjected to. Golf, again, not blatantly obvious, but it does need training to hit the ball precisely where you need to. Curling, just like golf, much more precision-based. Dancing isn't necessarily a sport on its own, but it can be incorporated into things that ARE sports, like gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, etc.

Just because things don't bash you over the head with their obvious need of physical skill doesn't mean they aren't sports. There's more to the term than that.

Torchie, you've been pwned.

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How dare you! btw, in europe it's called rugby, not football.

torchie13125 wrote:

Um, I thought Russia wasn't Communist anymore? Maybe I got a 4 on my AP World History Test (in America) with no knowledge that Russia was still Communist. Last time I checked, the Soviet Union got dismantled in the 1980s and 1990s.
Anyway, I also don't think synchronized swimming shouldn't be a sport. Why? It's pretty much underwater dancing!
Another sport that shouldn't be a sport is figure skating. The reason? Same as above, except on ice. Dancing isn't a sport.
~torchie13125

Erhm, i swim... when i get angry, Mr. Baglesworth gets angry! and when Mr. Bagelsworth gets angry, PEOPLE DIE! (JK)

Well, excuse me! *sarcasm*
I didn't know that there were jokes about them.
This is seriously why I need to go online more often...
Anyway, Chess, I think, is definitely a sport.
Mental exercise is still good for your body, isn't it?
So, that's why Chess is a sport.
I still don't think dancing isn't a sport.

Seriously, folks, dancing ain't a sport!Dancing only makes someone more flexible, so it's easier to play sports. It DOES NOT count as a sport.And I do agree with Zero Cool on that gaming is not a sport.

As for your claim that there aren't any international cups, there's the IFAF World Cup. There's also the European Football League, which operates similarly to the Champions League soccer tournament (i.e. best club teams in Europe participate in a tournament to determine the European champion).

Also want to point out the fairly short-lived NFL Europe that existed as a subsidiary of the National Football League...

As to torchie's point of dancing not being a sport, I'm going to raise a particularly controversial one in addition to that (ties in with it): cheerleading. I undestand that dancers and cheerleaders do their best to prepare their bodies for their routines (of course, that is also a good argument for them being sports), but I just can't see any of that as a sport. Just my opinion, of course.

I'd love to see how people debunk or support that one.

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Oh HELL yeah. I agree, except if anyone here's from my school hears this, I'm doomed. We went to states on cheerleading a few years back, and we were really close last year. So yeah. I think cheerleading isn't a sport.

One sport that people think isn't a sport: Marching Band. People have told me "Oh, well it's just walking around playing music." No, it's jogging around, playing extraneous music, and trying to walk in an exact formation. It's a fraking sport.

Lots of people I know don't think cheerleading can be considered a sport. In my opinion, I think it definitely qualifies as one. It takes skill, balance, and many other skills found in gymnastics, which is another difficult sport that's in the Olympics!

(I bet that if the cheerleaders and the team that the cheerleaders are cheering for switch places, the cheerleaders would end up better than the team.)

Alright. Time to clear things up.Chess- a sportCompetitive Gaming - NOT a sport (although I wish it was )Golf- a sportCurling- a sportDance- a sport (but only the competition type)Cheerleading- a sport (same as dance)Fishing- NOT a sportCross-Country- CROSS-COUNTRY IS A SPORT YOU IDIOTS I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY... ahemAny type of competition done by animals- NOT a sport (but horse racing counts)Pin the Tail on the Donkey- Highly controversial, don't want to get involved

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